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Marta Ortega Pérez (born 1984) is the daughter of Amancio Ortega and was appointed chair of Inditex as of December 2021.[1][2] Ortega replaced Pablo Isla, who was chair and CEO of Inditex since 2011.[1] In April 2022, she will become president of the company.[3]
Ortega studied at La Coruña and continued her baccalaureate education in Switzerland. She studied business in the European business school of the University of London and graduated in 2007, with a specialty in international entrepreneurship. The same year, she began to work at Inditex, at the London Zara store in Chelsea, then other locations and departments in the business.[4] She currently works at the Intidex headquarters in Arteixo, Spain, for the women's product and design department, collaborating with Beatriz Padín.[2]
In Arteixo, Ortega works with her father, Inditex founder Amancio Ortega, introducing new ways to communicate with the public.[5] Since 2015, she has been on the board of directors of the Amancio Ortega Foundation. The foundation's scholarship program was modified due to the COVID-19 pandemic per an agreement with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)[6]
In November 2021 it was announced that in 1 April she would be named president of Inditex, succeeding Pablo Isla.[7] Her appointment caused the company's share price to fall sharply. In her role, she will be expected to address the company's reputation of alleged forced labor and environmental impact.[1]
Ortega has two children, a son and a daughter. She was previously married to Sergio Álvarez Moya, with whom she had her son, and is currently married to Carlos Torretta, a public relations employee at Inditex, with whom she has a daughter born in 2020.[8] For her wedding to Torretta, she wore a Valentino gown.[9]
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